For the fifth year, Sage has awarded its annual 10-Year Impact Awards, recognizing the authors of three academic papers with long-term influence. This year’s awards honor the most-cited articles published in Sage Journals in 2013. The winning papers received more citations over the past decade than any other study released during that year.

The three winning articles are:

• Vision meets robotics: The KITTI dataset by Andreas Geiger, Philip Lenz, Christoph Stiller, and Raquel Urtasun in The International Journal of Robotics Research

• Dual-Process Theories of Higher Cognition: Advancing the Debate by Jonathan St. B. T. Evans and Keith E. Stanovich in Perspectives on Psychological Science

• The New Statistics: Why and How by Geoff Cumming in Psychological Science

“The impact of academic research, especially in the social and behavioral sciences, often goes beyond the standard two-year citation window," said Ziyad Marar, president of global publishing at Sage. "These awards extend that period to ten years, recognizing work with a deep and lasting impact that might be overlooked in the short term. It's noteworthy, though not surprising, that nearly all the papers we've honored in the past five years come from the social and behavioral sciences, underscoring their significant influence over time."

These awards reflect Sage’s continued commitment to rethinking and refining the markers that measure research impact. Other recent work in this space includes:

• The launch of Sage Policy Profiles, a free, browser-based tool that enables researchers to find, export, visualize, and share their work’s citations in policy.

• A webinar series, How to Do Research and Get Published, that helps new researchers make an impact by addressing stumbling blocks in publishing research.

• A course by Epigeum, “Research Impact: Creating Meaning and Value,” aimed at helping researchers define, plan, and communicate their research projects for impact.

• The launch of Understanding Humans, which compiles highlights from Sage’s long-running Social Science Bites podcast, exploring how the social sciences can help solve society’s problems.

More information about how Sage is enabling impact can be found in the recently published Independence with Impact Report.

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